Divining in a Year of Famine: Stockpiling Grain and Building a City in Ancient Times

[Multiple Nations Invade + Hunter + Troubles Within and Threats Without + Farming + Build High Walls, Stockpile Grain, and Claim the Throne Later + Rebel and Vie for Supremacy]

[Entirely handwritten, no AI used]

He was chatting live with Ding Quan, an antiques appraisal streamer, when he transmigrated along with his family's ancestral copper coins?!

The moment Zhou Qing opened his eyes, he had become a no-good hunter on the northwestern frontier of the Great Yong Dynasty.

It was the middle of a devastating famine. Thousands of miles of land lay barren, and starving corpses were scattered everywhere. His family was nearly out of their last grain of rice.

Fortunately, the three ancestral copper coins had come with him, transforming into a divine fortune-telling tool!

On the first toss, the coin landed on the kang without a sound, but a bold horizontal line suddenly cut across Zhou Qing's sea of consciousness.

[First line: Zhen over Thunder. A murderous aura rushed toward him, like the clash of weapons and warhorses.]

"Again!"

Zhou Qing gathered up the coins and tossed them again.

On the second toss, the coin spun rapidly on the kang mat before finally coming to rest. Two short lines appeared beneath the horizontal one.

[Second line: Gen over Mountain. Amid layers of mountain shadows, a glimmer of light lay hidden beneath the rubble.]

[The two lines combine into the hexagram: Thunder over Mountain, Lesser Preponderance.]

[Slightly auspicious: A flying bird leaves behind its cry. It is better to descend than ascend. At a stall selling scrap iron in the western part of the county town, there's a chance to find a hidden bargain: an iron and steel axle core from a Great Yong divine-arm crossbow.]